My wife and I normally a sucker for anything seasonal. But we’ve been trying not to be impulsive with our money just because we see something pretty on Hulu (via their commercials since we don’t have cable – please see my article on why we will never need to buy cable again!). So when my wife, Malia, informed me that McDonald’s Shamrock Shake was back in season I knew I had to try to help her not make an impulsive buy. Apparently she has submission issues…

We went ahead to McDonald’s after she picked me up from Church to wet our pallets with some minty ice cream goodness. The commercials were so appealing after all. The promise of a light green minty ice cream shake. Who ain’t have time for that?

Even as we pull up into the drive through we are bombarded by pictures of this delightful shake which apparently is going to solve all our problems and make us smile ridiculously hard – according to the ads. Six bucks later we get our shakes and on our way.

Then we notice the horror that rests in our cup holders.

Now that they are putting the shakes in the clear plastic cups – you can see exactly what your drinking. Which isn’t the evenly smooth light green color with some streaks of white running along the sides of the cup to give a “I’ve been mixed via a blender look” What we got were very dark patches green of syrup in an other wise slimy looking drink.

We thought, “Maybe it still tastes good…” WRONG. Both of us got a MASSIVE hit of green mint syrup at the bottom of the drink that made me go temporarily blind. (I sure hope it was the shake or I probably need to go see a doctor immediately.) We took these disgusting drinks back and ask for fresher ones. They try to pour me more but the “mint syrup” was almost gone so I watch them pour more syrup into this filthy container on the floor that was connected to a hose that mixed it with the “shake” Then I watched as he poured us new drinks that looked and tasted even worst than the previous ones.

ConclusionDon’t buy this death in a cup. I’ll be the first to admit I need to do a better job about what I consume. But this is a true waste of money and honestly is probably a determent to the health of anyone who stares at it for longer than 5 seconds.